THE MAGIC OF WISDOM

Lectures

Perth, Western Australia, 1951 - 1952

Perth,12^th April, 1951

SERGE RAYNAUD de la FERRIÈRE

Thursday, April 12th 1951. (Cremorne).

The Process of INVOLUTION and EVOLUTION

If we give God a name, we mix the Vibrations. (Ref. GOD - 364 vibrations, Allah - 600 vibrations), and thus the sympathetic aspect is cut. Lao-Tse says, ”Be silent, be quiet”.

The ABSOLUTE is the FIRST PRINCIPLE, the UNKNOWN, the REAL GOD.

Instead of saying, “In the beginning, God created--- “, we should say, “In the Principle, Elohim manifested --- “, etc.

Thus begins the ARCHETYPE which manifests in three ways, LIFE, FORM, THOUGHT. The FIRST Mistery is Life, there must be a visible Form, and Thought is the Principle of its manifestation, and evolution. All accept this Trinity.

Under the ARCHETYPE, we have MICROCOSM, Man in three parts, Spirit, Psychic, Matter.

In the MACROCOSM, the Animal Instinct is collective consciousness; no individual Soul. A dog thinks and no more. There is no understanding of Race, Nationality, etc.

the Vegetable Instinct is only a Sensation, a cellular intelligence; there is no Interior feeling.

the Mineral Instinct is a molecular principle. Give the mineral a shock and it moves, but there is no Soul.

These Reactions are called INVOLUTION.

In so far as the Mental Plane is a biological emanation, we are animal. The difference arises when we begin to study a principle of Evolution, and the movement is to the Superior Mental Plane. It is a principle that after Action we get Reaction. Thus after INVOLUTION comes EVOLUTION.

When from the Great All there exists an emanation, (ref. a proton), we see all the Rays, Alpha, Beta, Gamma etc. But when the UNMANIFEST comes into MANIFESTATION, here begins INDIVIDUALITY. From the central Proton comes the Electrons around it. Thus we are an emanation from the Great All.

It is an ENERGETIC PROPULSION, there is no willing, no why, only Fact.

After the Psychical, the ASTRAL form is necessary in the Chain of Evolution.

We can’t kill. We may cut something in two, but always something remains.

The Astral Body is necessary for purification.

The SPIRITUAL Body gives the ENERGY which is necessary for Progress.

While in MATTER, the aspect is EGO-CENTRIC. But, even as a bottle reflects the light of the Candle, so the Individuality is a Reflection of God. Thus we are the Same in INDIVIDUALITY, but separate Bodies in PERSONALITY. Therefore, if we would escape from the PERSONALITY, the Inferior Mental Plane, the Ego-centric, the pride of degrees and cualifications, we must make ABNEGATION, of this Materialism, SUBLIMATE the^NTIndividuality, and reach the State of EXTASIS, (ie by prayer, no need of mediumship; Church ceremonial; incense, which kills the faculty of Reason, song, etc.)

After EXTASIS comes the beginning of EVOLUTION, for with Religion, we become MAN, we start the Path the Tau.

ILLUMINATION: - We forget the Personality, in sublimation by Love and Ideal. Illumination is a state of Auto-suggestion.

KNOWLEDGE gives Psychic Powers, the Synthesis of the Thesis and Antithesis. Knowledge of the visible and invisible worlds. i.e. 5 is not 5; it is 6. For 5 is made by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This makes 15 which is 1 plus 5 = 6.

1,2,3,4, is the invisible part, 5 is the visible part.

INITIATION in the school of Wisdom. The Aquarian Age is active, the teaching is open. Religion, through the Ages, is the preservation of the Secret Teaching. Then we are Initiate, we are master of the two Principles, Reason and Intuition, Positive and Negative.

At REALISATION we reach the Plane of the ARCHETYPE. Thus on to the CHRISTIC Plane, and to REINTEGRATION.

Note:- Initiation is the Last Plane for the ordinary Human Being. (Ref. illumination, which is only a sublimation of the EXTASIS; it is not contact with the Great All).

After people go beyond to the CHRISTIC plane, they may come back to show Humanity the Way to be “saved“. After this comes REINTEGRATION, the FUSION in the NON-MANIFEST,- NIRVANA.

Thus INVOLUTION into matter, and EVOLUTION into the GREAT ALL.

This is the Basis of all teaching of the School of Wisdom. This is the Invisible Teaching, the 1,2,3,4, over which we construct the Visible Teaching, the 5.

There are two ways to the Path:-

1. Mysticism, (negative, subjective, feeling, faith.) very difficult.

2. Knowledge, (positive, objective, understanding, knowing) but there comes a time when we can’t go on. We need the 2 Polarities.

   The Synthesis of the two.